Counterterrorism assessments supplied to online platforms
Tech Against Terrorism
Tech Against Terrorism is a counterterrorism-support initiative implemented by the Online Harms Foundation. Its services include the Terrorist Content Analytics Platform, which collects and verifies material and sends advisory alerts to providers.
What the records show
Tech Against Terrorism → Altitude — inspected public implementation
announced it would lead maintenance and development
2024-07-22 – 2024-07-22
July announcement assigns prospective stewardship to TAT with Jigsaw advisory support. Repository namespace and last observed main commit do not prove present operational vetoes or that no other development exists.
DIS Standard2024 — commenced 22 December → Tech Against Terrorism
names it as an example of independent expert verification tools
DIS commencement anchor; not observed procurement or use.
Section 6 Note 2 supplies a legal recognition route for known pro-terror material. Examples are nonexclusive; no purchase requirement, actual deployment or incorporation of every private classification into law.
Tech Against Terrorism → TCAP per-hash feedback and analyst response
describes analyst review and an email-response aim
Analyst decisions include removal, non-removal and pending. Reply aim is three to five working days by onboarding email; no actual deadline performance or independent appeal procedure established.
Tech Against Terrorism → TCAP inclusion and verification rules
applies source and content assessment through in-house experts
Public summary describes human source/content judgment against policy. Full verification procedure requires a form and was not acquired; no donor item-selection right is supplied.
Tech Against Terrorism → TCAP Archive and Research Portal
reported building an archive and reusable hash interfaces
2024-12-20 – 2024-12-20
December 2024 operator account reports over 46,000 files and 182,000 hashes, distinct units. It attributes LLM identification/classification support to Public Safety Canada without a cost allocation or acceptance record.
Altitude: product governance and correction boundaries
Observed 9 September 2026. This is a bounded static inspection of the public implementation linked by Tech Against Terrorism (TAT), not an installed or deployed system test. Acquisition is closed. No product/API calls, accounts, forms, content feeds, terrorist-content files, dependency installation or repository test suite were used. Canonical cases, readers and ZIPs were untouched.
A publicly released departmental status document records Canada partnering with Tech Against Terrorism to formally launch TCAP 2.0 at the Canada Centre's event of 1–5 May 2023. This earns a dated government participation/delivery relation. It does not establish acceptance of either grant workstream, completion of Phase 2, a contractual milestone, or authorization/payment of a particular instalment.
The strongest new relationship is concrete corporate and financial dependence: Tech Against Terrorism (TAT) is implemented by Online Harms Foundation (OHF); OHF's filed controlling entity is QuantSpark Limited; OHF also reports receiving loans from, being invoiced by, and owing money to QuantSpark. A separate official Canadian award directly funds development of the Terrorist Content Analytics Platform (TCAP). Neither record gives a donor a demonstrated right to order an individual content classification.
This inquiry used seven focused queries, rather than reopening all award routes: site:publicsafety.gc.ca "TCAP" "results" ; site:canada.ca "22841" "Terrorist" ; site:publicsafety.gc.ca "Tech Against Terrorism" evaluation ; "21415" "Terrorist Content" report acceptance ; site:publicsafety.gc.ca ("21415" OR "22841") ; site:canada.ca "Terrorist Content Analytics Platform" (evaluation OR milestones OR acceptance OR results) ; site:publicsafety.gc.ca "Tech Against Terrorism" (evaluation OR "final report" OR "performance") .
The same departmental record identifies TAT as launch partner. No actual project-performance acceptance or instalment payment is established by the event.
DIS commencement anchor; not observed procurement or use.
Section 6 Note 2 supplies a legal recognition route for known pro-terror material. Examples are nonexclusive; no purchase requirement, actual deployment or incorporation of every private classification into law.
Public summary describes human source/content judgment against policy. Full verification procedure requires a form and was not acquired; no donor item-selection right is supplied.
December 2021–November 2022 reporting period, not a current API service-level promise.
Reported by the cited source
Year 2 report records 36 disputes, all automated status issues; 35 statuses changed and one remained active. These are not 36 terrorist-label reversals or restored user posts. Response target then was seven working days.
December 2024 operator account reports over 46,000 files and 182,000 hashes, distinct units. It attributes LLM identification/classification support to Public Safety Canada without a cost allocation or acceptance record.